Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Quotes

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• Architects should be educated, skillful with the pencil, instructed in geometry, know much history, have followed the philosophers with attention, understand music, have some knowledge of medicine, know the opinions of the jurists, and be acquainted with astronomy and the theory of the heavens

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  Medicine, Heaven, Attention

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter I, Section 3,

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• Architecture depends on Order, Arrangement, Eurythmy, Symmetry , Propriety , and Economy.

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  Order, Architecture, Economy

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter II: "The Fundamental Principles of Architecture", Section 1,

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• Architect's designs must refer to the unquestionable perfection of the body's symmetry and proportions. If a building is to create a sense of eurythmia, it is essential that it mirrors these natural laws of harmony and beauty

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  Mirrors, Law, Perfection

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• Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.

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  Taste, Dimensions, Appearance

  Marcus VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Joseph GWILT (1826). “The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt”, p.15

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• A harmonious design requires that nothing be added or taken away.

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  Inspirational, Taken, Design

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• The architect must not only understand drawing, but music.

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  Drawing, Architecture, Architect

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• Geometry is of much assistance in architecture, and in particular it teaches us the use of the rule and compasses, by which especially we acquire readiness in making plans for buildings in their grounds, and rightly apply the square, the level, and the plummet. By means of optics the light in buildings can be drawn from fixed quarters of the sky. Difficult questions involving symmetry are solved by means of geometrical theories and methods.

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  Mean, Squares, Light

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter I, Section 4,

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• Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole.

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  Agreement, Height, Harmony

  Marcus VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Joseph GWILT (1826). “The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt”, p.12

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• Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

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  Careers, Architecture, Building

  Marcus VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Joseph GWILT (1826). “The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt”, p.170

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• In fact, all kinds of men, and not merely architects, can recognize a good piece of work.

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  Men, Pieces, Facts

  "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book VI, Chapter VIII, Section 10), circa 15 BC.

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• If our designs for private houses are to be correct, we must at the outset take note of the countries and climates in which they are built.

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  Country, House, Design

  "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book VI, Chapter I, Section 1), circa 15 BC.

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• Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.

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  Art, Helping, Architecture

  Marcus VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Joseph GWILT (1826). “The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt”, p.3

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• The [engineer] should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his judgement that all work done by the other arts is put to test. This knowledge is the child of practice and theory.

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  Art, Children, Practice

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter I: "The Education of the Architect", Section 1,

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• When the juices of trees have no means of escape, they clot and rot in them, making the trees hollow and good for nothing.

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  Mean, Tree, Juice

  "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book II, Chapter IX, Section 4), irca 15 BC.

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• It is no secret that the moon has no light of her own, but is, as it were, a mirror, receiving brightness from the influence of the sun.

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  Moon, Mirrors, Light

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book IX, Chapter II, Section 3,

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• An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises.

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  Men, Remembrance, Architect

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter I, Section 4,

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• The design of a temple depends on symmetry, the principles of which must be most carefully observed by the architect.

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  Design, Principles, Temples

  "The Ten Books On Architecture". Book III. Chapter I, Sec. 1, 15BC.

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• The proper form of economy must be observed in building houses for each and every class.

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  Building Houses, Class, Economy

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter II, Section 9,

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• Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.

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  Consistency, Details, Found

  Marcus VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Joseph GWILT (1826). “The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt”, p.12

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• If then, at this great distance, our human vision can discern that sight, why, pray, are we to think that the divine splendor of the stars can be cast into darkness?

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  Stars, Distance, Thinking

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• For not all things are practicable on identical principles

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  Principles, Identical, All Things

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• For we must not build temples according to the same rules to all gods alike, since the performance of the sacred rites varies with the various gods.

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  Sacred, Temples, Rite

  "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book IV, Chapter VIII, Section 6), circa 15 BC.

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• A liberal education forms a single body. Those, therefore, who from tender years receive instruction in the various forms of learning, recognize the same stamp on all the arts, and an intercourse between all studies, and so they more readily comprehend them all.

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  Art, Years, Body

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter I, Section 12,

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• All machinery is derived from nature, and is founded on the teaching and instruction of the revolution of the firmament.

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  Teaching, Revolution, Instruction

  "The Ten Books On Architecture". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, Book X, Chapter I, Sec. 4, c. 15 BC.

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• Bricks will be most serviceable if made two years before using; for they cannot dry thoroughly in less time. When fresh undried bricks are used in a wall, the stucco covering stiffens and hardens into a permanent mass, but the bricks settle and the motion caused by their shrinking prevents them from adhering to it, and they are separated from their union with it. At Utica in constructing walls they use brick only if it is dry and made five years previously, and approved as such by the authority of a magistrate.

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  Wall, Years, Two

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book II, Chapter III, Section 2,

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